riparianism

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noun

A doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.

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Meanings

nounriparianism (uncountable)
  1. USuncountablelawA doctrine of riparian rights, based on the principle that the owners of riparian land had the right to remove reasonable amounts of water from the river, but others did not.

    The result was a string of decisions that further established riparianism as a rule of law.

    1993, Mary Catherine Miller, Flooding the Courtrooms: Law and Water in the Far West, →ISBN, page 180

Origin

From riparian + -ism.

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